Historical News
SEVERAL LARGE CHESTS containing important papers of Samuel M.
("Golden Rule") Jones were
discovered early this year in the attic of
the S. M. Jones Company of Toledo. The
papers include original letters
to Jones, copies of letters from Jones,
clippings from Toledo newspapers
on his election and administration as
mayor of Toledo (1897-1904), and
records of the old Acme Sucker Rod
Company (now the S. M. Jones
Company), which was founded by Mayor
Jones.
The papers are to be given to the Toledo
Public Library, where they
will be available for the use of
scholars, subject to the permission of
Mason B. Jones, the only surviving son
of Toledo's reform mayor.
Stanley F. Chyet has been appointed
assistant to the director of the
American Jewish Archives.
A series of posters dealing with the
participation of the Jew in the
Civil War is being prepared by the
archives in connection with the
Civil War centennial.
Louis Leonard Tucker has been appointed
director of the Historical
and Philosophical Society of Ohio. A
native of Connecticut, he received
his Ph.D degree from the University of
Washington, and for the past
two years has been a fellow of the
Institute of Early American History
and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia.
He assumes his new position
on October 1.
Walter Muir Whitehill, director and
librarian of the Boston Athen-
aeum, will be the speaker for the annual
meeting of the society, to be
held Monday evening, December 5.
Miss Lillian C. Wuest, assistant
librarian and member of the society
staff for forty years, retired August
31.
Robert Howes has been appointed
assistant professor at the Univer-
sity of Akron. He will teach Russian and
Far Eastern history.
Howard Allen has received a grant from
the American Philosophical
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Association which will enable him to
investigate manuscripts at Berke-
ley, California.
George W. Knepper, head of the
department, is starting to collect
material concerning Buchtel College and
the University of Akron in
preparation for a centennial history to
be published in 1970.
At Capital University, William Darcy has
been changed from part-
time to full-time instructor in history.
Hilmar Grimm, chairman of the
department, was the first recipient
of the new Praestantia Award, to be
given annually at Capital Univer-
sity for "excellence in
teaching." Dr. Grimm has accepted the chair-
manship of the program committee for the
Ohio Academy of History
this year.
Richard D. Face, formerly on the staff
of Washington University at
St. Louis, has been appointed an
assistant professor of history in the
college of arts and sciences at the
University of Cincinnati.
Hilmar C. Krueger, head of the history
department, has also been
appointed dean of the university
college. Dr. Krueger presented a paper
dealing with medieval Genoese merchants
at the Eleventh International
Congress of Historical Sciences at
Stockholm in late August 1960.
Associate Professor George B. Engberg has
received from the Min-
nesota Historical Society its Solon J.
Buck Award for 1959 for the best
article in Minnesota History in
1959.
Assistant Professor Arnold Schrier was a
participant in the Con-
ference on Immigration Studies organized
in honor of Dean Theodore
C. Blegen at the University of Minnesota
in January 1960. Dr. Schrier
taught at Northwestern University during
its summer term.
Donald W. Bradeen, associate professor
of classics and ancient history,
taught a summer term at the University
of British Columbia at Van-
couver.
Raymond J. Maras, assistant professor of
history at the University
of Dayton, spent the summer in Europe
gathering material for a forth-
coming biography of Pope Innocent XI to
be published by the Newman
Press.
Wilfred J. Steiner, chairman of the
department, has been promoted
from associate professor to professor of
history, effective September 1.
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The Rev. John F. Mitzell, S.J., has been
appointed an instructor in
medieval history at John Carroll
University. Leaving the history de-
partment there are the Rev. Howard J.
Kerner, S.J., Beltie S. Gilani,
and James R. Hartnett.
At Kent State University, Phillip R.
Shriver has been promoted to
the rank of professor, Lawrence S.
Kaplan to associate professor, and
Robert H. Jones and Martin J. Havran to
assistant professor.
William F. Zornow spent the summer in
Independence, Missouri,
working on his projected biography of
Harry S. Truman.
Landon Warner has returned from his
sabbatical leave and will
resume his duties as chairman of the
history department at Kenyon
College.
Charles Ritcheson was the recipient of a
Lilly Foundation fellow-
ship to carry on research at the
Clements Library at the University
of Michigan during the summer.
Philip L. Ralph, professor of history
and chairman of social studies
at Lake Erie College, will be on leave
of absence during the year 1960-
61 to serve as professor of humanities
at Robert College, Istanbul,
Turkey, under a Rockefeller Foundation
grant.
Helmut Hirsch, formerly of Roosevelt
University, will serve as a
visiting lecturer in history at Lake
Erie in Professor Ralph's absence.
Robert J. Taylor, professor of history
in the Marietta College history
department, will be on leave during the
current academic year to lecture
at the Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies under a Fulbright grant.
Richard L. Blanco of Duquesne University
(Ph.D., Western Reserve
University) has been appointed assistant
professor of history.
William R. Jones (Ph.D., Harvard, and
formerly of Charleston
College) has been selected as the
replacement for C. E. Van Sickle, who
retired last spring at Ohio Wesleyan.
William Bultmann of the Wesleyan history
staff has a Fulbright
grant to go to the University of Dacca,
Pakistan, for the year 1960-61.
J. Herrold Lancaster, librarian of the
Slocum Library at Ohio
Wesleyan, has been named secretary of
the historical commission of
the Ohio Conference of the Methodist
Church and curator of the Metho-
dist Historical Collection at the
library.
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Willard A. Smith of the University of
Toledo has received a Ful-
bright award to enable him to spend the
academic year 1960-61 in Spain
on research for his projected study of
the Primo de Rivera dictatorship
of the 1920's.
Thomas E. Felt, who will receive his
Ph.D. in history from Michigan
State University in December 1960, has
been appointed instructor at
the College of Wooster. He will teach
in the field of American history.
Mr. Felt has been employed as a field
representative for the library of
the Ohio Historical Society for the
past year.
Adolph W. Almgren and Nicholas Manos
have been appointed in-
structors in history at Youngstown
University, both on a part-time
basis.